[Data-modeling] Upcoming schema changes

[Jeff Prucher]

This is a very good point, and I'm not happy with "writer" as a name, either
-- I just haven't had any better ideas. "Contributor" is already too
generic, I think: the assertion that George Eliot is a "contributor" is not
going to mean much to people. And most editors are also writers, although
their editing isn't what makes them so, I agree. I did use "contributor" in
the property name on "written work" that connects to the "writer" type for
the reasons you mention (the property is named "writers/contributors", I
think). We're really looking for a word or phrase that means "creator of a
written or published work".

Anybody have other suggestions?

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Tom Morris
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:41 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Upcoming schema changes
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Bryan Cheung 
> <bryan.cheung at metaweb.com> wrote:
> 
> > The type "writer" will replace the
> > types "author," "editor," "poet," "reviewer," and "interviewer";
> 
> I'd be willing accept that a "poet" and an "author" are both 
> examples of a "writer," but an "editor" is a different beast 
> altogether.  If you really want a term that will cover all of 
> these roles, it needs to be something more generic like 
> "contributor." Of course, the more generic you make it, the 
> less useful it becomes (not just the name, but the number of 
> roles it covers).
> 
> Tom
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